Below the break is an excerpt from “Understanding the Negative Effects of Legal Education on Law Students: A Longitudinal Test of Self-Determination Theory” by Kennon M. Sheldon (University of Missouri–Columbia) and Lawrence S. Krieger (Florida State University), which was published only a few months ago in Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, Vol. 33, No. 6, [...]
I just read “Some Arizona University Programs Threatened by Proposed Ban on Affirmative Action” by Peter Schmidt (author of Color and Money), and it reminded me of a few questions I asked of a few Black and Hispanic lawyers during a recent meeting. Here are paraphrased versions of the questions I asked.
1) Why would a [...]
An article authored by Peter Schmidt and entitled, “Advocates of Diversity Grasp for Ways to Drive Change in Legal Profession,” was published by The Chronicle of Higher Education this morning. I left the following comment in the comments section.
I agree with Steve (Comment #2) that the pressure to maintain high LSAT scores for rankings purposes [...]
Take a peek at this short article, “Minority Students Fare Better in Colleges When High-School Classmates Also Enroll, Researchers Say” published by The Chronicle of Higher Education, November 11, 2007.
A working draft of the paper containing the preliminary findings referenced in the article can be viewed here. Please do not reference this draft paper [...]
About four years ago, I believed I wanted to complete a Ph.D. program. My reasons? Love of intellectual toil. Love of discovery. Desire to capture my best ideas in rigorous esoteric writings. And, of course, I desired the prestige. I had the time. I had the ability. And, I suspect, that if I had completed [...]
My man Ed Dunn (External Ed) from Dream & Hustle asked some questions in the comments thread for “Cultural Discomfort.” In response, I meditated, in writing, about why some Black law students deal with the discomfort in exchange for the social benefits, wealth and prestige, they are promised if they measure their success as they [...]
Charlton Copeland put up a blog post, “What I Owe to Hampton,” over at Blackprof.com that made me scratch my head a little.
My wife and I recently escorted our daughter to a public university for her undergraduate education. We escorted our son to the same university the year before. Our son and our daughter [...]
Poverty is defined as living in a family of four on less than $19,784 per year.1 The burdens of living in low income families are not distributed equally across all ethnic groups in the U.S.2 And Black Americans “had the lowest median income in 2005, $30,858, which was 61 percent of the median for non-Hispanic [...]
I’ve read several articles during the past two years that argued U.S. universities are granting too many Ph.D.s for the higher education industry to absorb. At least one article suggested lower ranked programs should reduce their Ph.D. production. I can’t remember where I read the article; I would link to it or cite it if [...]
You got to love it when folks walk the talk.
Wildcat School is a new charter school in Tucson, AZ. It is free. And, it provides its students with an excellent education, focusing on math and science.
From the Wildcat School website:
This innovative school was established as a not-for-profit corporation in the summer 2005 in partnership [...]
“These factors make Asians better at math and science. But does it make them better, holistically speaking?”—David Chen, “Why Asians are Better at Math”
Most U.S. citizens must work very hard in order to gain access to and benefit from the vast educational resources and opportunities that are guaranteed to our upper-class U.S. citizens. In fact, [...]
For several of the social networks to which I belong, I am a linker, a connector. I connect people and ideas who probably wouldn’t connect but for me. I might hang out with philosophy professors and graduate students, linguists, poets, economists, hotshot entrepreneurs, a retired business mogul turned philanthropist, a few lawyers, a few doctors, [...]
As I observed the Imus scandal aftermath with great interest, I began to wish, for a brief time, that I had entered and completed a Ph.D. program in social psychology or sociology or some other social science many years ago; that I had gone on to publish a few dues-paying essays or an exoteric book [...]